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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:12:20 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        <chris@aims.com.au>
Cc:        "'Nate Williams'" <nate@yogotech.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?
Message-ID:  <15365.3300.905293.374565@caddis.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <004101c177ee$15a9dce0$020aa8c0@aims.private>
References:  <004101c177ee$15a9dce0$020aa8c0@aims.private>

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> As a follow-up, I've just checked the newreno setting on the boxes I
> experienced the problems with - newreno is on.
> I'll try turning it off and see if I experience any problems. BTW, what does
> it do exactly?

It's supposed to make performance of resends/ACKs better in the case of
packet loss.

> Also, a query on my timesheets shows that I had the same FTP problems on a
> FreeBSD 3.2 box with the dc driver talking to an NT4 Terminal Server with
> onboard Intel 8255x controller via a 10/100 hub (full duplex), and also a
> FreeBSD 4.0 box with the rl driver talking to an NT4 Terminal Server with
> onboard Intel 8255x controller via a 10Mbit/s hub (full duplex). Disabling
> autonegotiation on the FreeBSD NIC fixed it. Only FTP was affected in both
> cases - SMTP, HTTP and SSH were all fine.

I've got HTTP problems as well, although as I stated before, that might
be a configuration issue.  FTP is certainly effected.


Nate

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